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Hannah More [1745-1833] English
Rank: 103
Writer


Hannah More was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.

Anger, Faith, Forgiveness, Religion



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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Anger, Forgiveness
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
102
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. Faith
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
105
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
106
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. Religion
107
Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
108
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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